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Raya Jalabi

Middle East correspondent

Raya Jalabi is the FT's Middle East correspondent, covering Iraq, Syria and Lebanon from her base in Beirut. Before joining the FT in 2022, she covered Saudi Arabia and Iraq for Reuters, and was a news editor and reporter at The Guardian in New York.
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  • Friday, 19 May, 2023
    Middle Eastern politics & society
    Syria’s president al-Assad welcomed back into fold at Arab League summit

    Countries to discuss initiative with leader to encourage millions of refugees to return

  • Tuesday, 16 May, 2023
    Lebanon
    France issues arrest warrant for Lebanon central bank chief

    Riad Salameh failed to appear before Paris investigators over corruption and money-laundering

  • Monday, 15 May, 2023
    COP28
    Syrian leader Assad invited to COP 28 climate summit in Dubai

    Move likely to cause disquiet among those expressing disdain for the pace of reconciliation with Damascus

  • Sunday, 14 May, 2023
    Oil & Gas industry
    How Iran will profit from Shell’s Iraqi gas project

    Tehran-based company receives most of the revenues from the power plant used by UK group’s joint venture in Iraq

  • Thursday, 4 May, 2023
    Lebanon
    Judge investigating Lebanon’s central bank chief is ousted

    Ghada Aoun dismissed amid multiple corruption probes against country’s political and financial elite

  • Monday, 1 May, 2023
    News in-depthMiddle Eastern politics & society
    Arab world weighs price for Assad’s rehabilitation

    Diplomats say Syria’s pariah leader will be expected to make concessions to enable his return to Arab League

  • Monday, 1 May, 2023
    Middle Eastern politics & society
    Erdoğan says Isis leader killed in operation by Turkish forces

    US has not confirmed Ankara’s strike on Islamist leader Abu Hussein al-Qurayshi

  • Wednesday, 12 April, 2023
    Middle Eastern politics & society
    Saudi Arabia hosts Syrian foreign minister for first time since civil war

    Visit is the latest sign that Arab countries who once opposed regime are moving closer to embracing Damascus

  • Monday, 10 April, 2023
    FT News Briefing podcast10 min listen
    The rising influence of Mrs Assad

    China corruption probes are going after financial executives for 'hedonism'

  • Sunday, 9 April, 2023
    Israeli-Palestinian conflict
    Israeli strikes on Syria targets cap week of tensions

    Attacks come after 48 hours of tit-for-tat violence ignited by police raid at Jerusalem’s al-Aqsa mosque

  • Saturday, 8 April, 2023
    Iraq
    Iraq demands Turkey apologise for drone strike on Syrian Kurdish leader

    Mazloum Abdi, a US ally against Isis, escaped the attack on an airport in Iraq’s semi-autonomous Kurdistan region

  • Friday, 7 April, 2023
    Israeli-Palestinian conflict
    Israel strikes Hamas targets in Gaza and Lebanon

    Weapons manufacturing sites and tunnels hit, says Israeli military

  • Friday, 7 April, 2023
    Israeli-Palestinian conflict
    Israel hits targets in Lebanon and Gaza as tensions mount

    Netanyahu says response will ‘exact heavy price’ after rockets are fired at Israel amid clashes at al-Aqsa mosque

  • Wednesday, 5 April, 2023
    TotalEnergies
    TotalEnergies strikes deal with Iraq to revive $27bn energy projects

    Gas, oil and solar initiatives had become bogged down in political negotiations

  • Tuesday, 4 April, 2023
    Syria
    Two people killed in Israeli air strikes on Damascus suburb

    Attacks come days after Israel downed what it said was an Iranian drone that crossed into its territory from Syria

  • Sunday, 2 April, 2023
    Iraq
    Iraqi authorities reach preliminary deal to resume oil exports to Turkey

    Final agreement expected ‘within days’ to restart flow of crude halted by tribunal decision

  • Sunday, 2 April, 2023
    The Big Read
    Syria’s state capture: the rising influence of Mrs Assad

    The first lady now has a leading role in a regime that is plundering the wealth of its people

  • Tuesday, 28 March, 2023
    Bashar al-Assad
    Assad cousins hit with sanctions over amphetamine trade that funds regime

    Captagon is estimated to be worth $57bn annually to the Syrian government

  • Tuesday, 28 March, 2023
    OutlookLebanon
    Lebanon fails the test of time

    The decision to delay daylight savings plunged the country into a crisis of conflicting time zones

  • Monday, 27 March, 2023
    News in-depthIraq
    Crippling dollar shortage underscores vulnerability of Iraq’s oil-based economy

    Attempts to control a monetary crisis have had unintended consequences for a country struggling to get back on its feet

  • Saturday, 25 March, 2023
    Oil
    Iraq wins landmark case against Turkey over Kurdish oil exports

    Nine-year dispute over region’s energy sales settled by international court

  • Thursday, 16 March, 2023
    Money laundering
    Lebanon’s central bank chief in court to face money-laundering allegations

    Riad Salameh for the first time appears in front of European investigators probing the accusations

  • Tuesday, 14 March, 2023
    Lebanon
    Lebanon’s banks begin strike action over ‘arbitrary’ judicial decisions

    Closures are the latest blow for the country’s depositors who are already struggling to access their own money

  • Wednesday, 8 March, 2023
    News in-depthTurkey-Syria earthquake
    Spy chief’s daughter highlights UN’s tangled relations with Syrian regime

    Sanctioned figure’s daughter works for UN agency as quake exposes compromises in aid provision benefiting regime

  • Wednesday, 15 February, 2023
    FT News Briefing podcast10 min listen
    Dispatch from northwest Syria

    Smaller-than-expected fall in US inflation will fuel concern over persistence of higher prices

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